Quantum fiction! – M. John Harrison’s Empty Space trilogy and Weird theory

Scholz, Christina

doi:10.1080/0950236x.2017.1358689

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“…Reaalteadlaste kriitika õigustab end veelgi enam, kui vaadelda kaht 1990. aastate algusperioodil loodud käsitlust: kvantkirjanduse žanri (quantum fiction) ja Susan Platt nägi kvantkirjanduses võimalust taaselustada teadusulme žanri, sidudes sellega kvantteooria maailmamudeli (Scholz 2017(Scholz , 1150.…”

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“…Platti tõlgendus suunab tähelepanu küll kvantteooriast tuttavale vaatleja mõjuefektile (lugeja vaatlus mõjutab teksti ja tegelaste vaatlus loob fiktsionaalset maailma), kuid seob oma žanritunnused väga mitmesuguste autorite (Ballard, Burroughs, Joyce) ja nende erisuguste tehnikatega: hüpertekst, "tihendatud romaan" (condensed novel), mitme tegelase perspektiiv (multiple segmented perspectives) ja multimeedia vahenditega eksperimenteerimine. Veider on ka nõue, mille järgi peaks kvantkirjandus olema visuaalselt rikastatud, sisaldama graafikat -see võis olla tingitud asjaolust, et Platt töötas 1960. aastatel ajakirja New Worlds kunstnikuna (Scholz 2017(Scholz , 1151. Seda arvesse võttes on ilmne, et žanr on alguse 7 Kvantkirjandus on osa palju laiemast, ent üsna noorest nähtusest, mille osaks on juurutada kvandi mõiste veel enam kultuuri ja ühiskonda.…”

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Jutustaja kui kujutluse etnograaf eksperimentaalses süsteemis / The Narrator as an Ethnographer of the Imagery in an Experimental System

Remmel

2020

Methis

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Käesoleva artikli eesmärgiks on tuua nähtavale kahe kultuuri (reaalteaduste ja humanitaaria) pingeväli ja näidata, kuidas eelkõige 20. sajandi teise poole kirjandusteadus, adapteerides põhiliselt populaarteadusest nüüdisfüüsika, sh kvantteooria mõistevara, on võimaldanud pingetel jätkuda. Artikkel tutvustab põhilisi kirjandusteaduse suundi, mis on arenenud kvantteooria mõjuväljas, kuid suhtub neisse reaalteadlaste seisukohti arvestades ka kriitiliselt. Vastukaaluks sellele pingeväljale esitab artikkel alternatiivse lahenduse, kuidas võib kirjandus ise olla uue teadmise kandja, ning näitab, et kirjandusteaduse rolliks on seejuures anda õige suund tekstis „osalemiseks“. The aim of this article is to explore the conflicting situation of two cultures: science and the humanities. Due to erroneously orientated practices of literary criticism in which the concepts of contemporary physics and quantum theory have been adapted mistakenly, the conflict of the two cultures has continued. The article introduces the main outcome of this kind of inaccurate science making: a usage of scientific concepts as metaphors, the genre of quantum fiction, and Susan Strehle’s concept of actualism. As an alternative approach, the article explains how scientific and epistemological value lies in fiction itself, considering its ability to awaken imagery expressions of the unknown. Based on Hans-Jörg Rheinberger’s ideas on experiment and Gabriele Schwab’s ethnographical perspective, a text can been seen as an “experimental system”, which includes “epistemic things” as bizarre or unknown but familiar objects which offer resistance to immediate interpretation. Instead, they actuate a process in which “knowing that” transforms to “knowing how”. This process in which the imagery is evoked in an experimental situation carries a scientific value in itself. If the reader or scientist pays special attention to the internal resistance of the “epistemic things” and to the power of the imagery, a quantum reality is more likely to open up in fiction. Another aim of this article is to expand upon a quantum-based study within Estonian literary theory. However, the introduction begins in a critical manner: up to now, no deeper study of the relation between contemporary physics and fiction of the 20th and 21st centuries has been considered and the word “quantum” has only occurred in Enn Kasak’s study of quantum mythology. Therefore, in order to avoid random connections between Estonian literature and, for example, the genre of quantum fiction, the article starts with a broader perspective by exploring thoroughly the relation between the two cultures, also asserting the need for further investigation. Furthermore, the article is may serve as a quest into trying to understand how to define a fictional quantum world. In order to avoid incoherency between physics and humanities, the article takes Hans-Jörg Rheinberger’s idea of “experimental systems” as a basis. By doing this, the epistemological value would lie in the text itself; more importantly, rather than creating direct connections between fiction and contemporary physics, an “experimental system” will provide knowledge by resisting knowledge and therefore setting the focus more on the attunement of the text. The article is also a starting point for further research. An approach from the idea of “experimental systems” might attribute new meanings to the fiction by the physicist Madis Kõiv, especially as regards his novels Päev (Day) and Aken (Window). So, instead of highlighting some keywords that might show the relation of Kõiv’s fiction and quantum theory, considering a text as an “experimental system” could expose the inadeqacy of such assertions. Rather, what might be revealed is that Kõiv’s novels are “heading” for a quantum reality, but they are also relocating it in open field.

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Jutustaja kui kujutluse etnograaf eksperimentaalses süsteemis / The Narrator as an Ethnographer of the Imagery in an Experimental System

Remmel

2020

Methis

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The development model of homestay tourism agglomeration in Yangtze River Delta from the L-R-D perspective

Long¹,

Dai²,

Zhang³

2021

JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES

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In the era of mass leisure, homestay tourism has become a new driving force for balancing urban and rural development, invigorating the tourism economy, and helping rural revitalization and poverty alleviation. As a special type and manifestation of industrial agglomeration, homestay tourism agglomeration area is an important symbol to measure the development level of homestay tourism. But relevant academic attention is obviously insufficient. Based on the connotation of three elements of L-location, R-resource and Ddynamic, the paper constructs the L-R-D theory of the development of homestay tourism agglomeration. Taking the Yangtze River Delta, where homestay development plays a leading role in China, as a case, this paper mainly analyzes five development models of urban scenic market-oriented mode, suburban leisure market-oriented mode, historic village market-oriented mode, rural aging industry market-oriented mode and rural leisure market-oriented mode. It provides solid support and scientific reference for improving quality and increasing efficiency, and integrating and upgrading in homestay tourism agglomeration areas.

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Cat and Housefly

Murphy¹

2022

Extrapolation

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M. John Harrison’s major fictional sequences Viriconium (1971-1985) and the Empty Space trilogy (2002-2012) refuse the quasi-theological world-building ambitions of conventional fantasy and sf, offering instead the paradoxical pleasures of imaginary worlds that fail to cohere and narrative mysteries that avoid resolution or closure. Harrison uses the biophilosophical concept of Umwelt, referring to a world of perception and action specific to a particular lifeform and inaccessible to other forms, as a conceptual alternative to the monolithic, reductive, and escapist logic shared by cult-fictions like The Lord of the Rings and fantastic crank-cults such as Scientology.

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Quantum fiction! – M. John Harrison’s Empty Space trilogy and Weird theory

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Jutustaja kui kujutluse etnograaf eksperimentaalses süsteemis / The Narrator as an Ethnographer of the Imagery in an Experimental System

Jutustaja kui kujutluse etnograaf eksperimentaalses süsteemis / The Narrator as an Ethnographer of the Imagery in an Experimental System

The development model of homestay tourism agglomeration in Yangtze River Delta from the L-R-D perspective

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